Word: retargeted
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Some of the ideas that the candidates have proposed are open to serious objection. Gephardt's plan to retarget federal aid toward the fastest- improving schools risks helping good districts to become better while leaving the poor ones to deteriorate even further. Du Pont's "universal choice" goes too far even for some Republicans who accept the principle of inducing competition among schools. Kemp charged that du Pont's plan might cost the Federal Government as much as $25 billion; he promotes choice among public schools only within a given district. But whatever the merits or demerits of the specific...
Negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviets over intermediate-range nuclear missiles are irrelevant. No matter what the outcome, the U.S.S.R. can simply take some of its ICBMS and submarine-based missiles now aimed at us and retarget them at Europe. Unless the talks on intermediate-range missiles are linked to a massive reduction, if not outright elimination, of strategic nuclear missiles, the negotiators are wasting their time...